Combination end table and magazine rack



Aug. 20, 1929. F. SCHIMMEL 1,725,423

COIBINATION END TABLE AND IAGAZINB RACK Filed June 1927 N v $1 E Q,

11 110411 sail-11ml Patented Aug. 20, 1929.

UNITED STATES FRIDOLIN SCHIMMEL, 0F FARIBAULT, MINNESOTA.

COMBINATION END TABLE AND MAGAZINE RACK Application filed June 9,

My present invention has for its object to provide a combined end table and magazine rack, and to this end it consists of the novel construction and arrangement of parts here inafter described and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary View partly in plan and partly in section taken substantially on the line 33 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4: is a fragmentary detail. view principally in sectiontaken on the irregular line 4% of Fig. 2.

The end table comprises end, back and top members 5, 6 and 7 respectively. Said end members 5 are extended materially below the back member 6 and shaped to form pairs of supporting legs 8, and which members are also extended above the top member 6 to form book-ends 9 which alsoserve as a convenient means by which the table may be lifted.

The rack 10 proper may be used for bolding magazines, books, papers and the like, and is in the form of a rectangularboxdike structure connected by hinges to the table under the top member 7 thereof. The front member of the rack 10 is of the same size and finish as the back member 6 of the table and affords a front member for said table.

The hinges connecting the rack 10 to the table proper comprise a pair of aligned pins 11, anchored in the side members 5 of the table, and open vertical slots 12 formed in the lower edge portions of the end members of said rack. By reference to Fig. 2 it will be noted that the hinges 11-12 support the rack 10 so that its front member extends under the top member 7 of the table with such clearance as to permit the rack 10 to be moved to and from an open position, as indicated by broken lines in Fig. 2. The location of the hinges 1112 are such that the preponderance of weight of the rack is at the back thereof so that said rack will close after being moved beyond a dead center and be held closed under the action of gravity. The structure of the hinges 11-12 is such that they may be'located various different distances from the front and bottom of the rack so that said rack may be supported from 1927. Serial No. 197,566.

substantially balanced posion the load it is designed to limit the opening tilting movement of the rack 5 and hold the same in an open position, as indicated by broken lines in Fig. 2.

Secured to the front member of the rack 10 is a knob 15 by which the rack may be held while opening and closing the same. The back member of the rack 10 is relatively shallow in respect to the front member thereof and said rack is provided with a partition 16 which divides said rack into front and rear compartments. It will be noted that this partition 16 is somewhat higher than the back member of the rack 10.

The purpose of making the back member of the rack 10 and partition 16 of the height shown, is to permit the rack to be freely opened and closed and at the same time magazines or other articles in the compartments are readily accessible.

Then the rack is in substantially its tilted open position, as indicated by broken lines in Fig. 2, the same may be removed from the table proper by a lifting movement to separate the hinge members 11 and 12 thereof.

What I claim is:

1. The combination with a table comprising end, top and back members, of a rectangular box-like rack hinged to the table under the top member thereof, the front member of the rack affording a front member for the table, said rack being normally closed by the top member of the table and movable into a tilted open position from under said top, the hinges of said rack being so arranged that the rack is held closed by gravity, and a stop on the table with which the back of the rack engages to limit its closing movement, the bottom of said rack having an extension arranged to engage said stop and hold the rack open.

2. The combination with a table comprising end and top members, of a box-like rack, and separable hinges supporting the rack within the table, said hinges comprising a pair of inwardly projecting aligned pins on seats being spaced from the front and hotsaid side members and a pair of vertically tom of the rack, said rack When open being disposed slots in the sides of the rack, the free for lifting movement from the pins and 10 lower ends or which are open for the entrance removal from the table.

5 of said pins, the upper ends of the slots af- In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

fording seats resting directly on the pins and supporting said rack therefrom, said FRIDOLIN SCHIMMEL. 

